Punakha Dzongkhag Administration

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Punakha Dzongkhag Administration Punakha Dzongkhag Administration delivers prompt and quality services to the people while pursuing well balanced socio economic development.

Punakha Dzongkhag is situated in western Bhutan bordered by Gasa, Thimphu and Wangduephodrang. The Dzongkhag is located at an altitude ranging from 1100-2500 m above sea level. Until 1955, Punakha served as the winter capital of Bhutan. Currently, it serves as the winter residence for the Central Monastic Body. Punakha Dzongkhag is well known for rice, vegetables and fruits owing to its favorable location, soil and climatic conditions. Similarly, the principal horticulture crops grown are citrus, persimmon, peach, guava, passion fruits and vegetables. The Dzongkhag is also a popular tourist destination. Punakha Dzong is a major attraction besides Chhimi Lhakhang, and the two hot springs, namely Koma Tshachu and Chhubu Tshachu.

༉ ཁྲུས་བབས་ཀྱི་ཉིནམ་ལུ་ བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས་ཞུ།Happy Blessed Rainy Day 2026 🌧️🌿The Dzongkhag Administration, Punakha would ...
23/09/2026

༉ ཁྲུས་བབས་ཀྱི་ཉིནམ་ལུ་ བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས་ཞུ།

Happy Blessed Rainy Day 2026 🌧️🌿

The Dzongkhag Administration, Punakha would like to extend our warm wishes to everyone on this Happy Blessed Rainy Day 2026.

May this blessed rainy day bring peace to your heart, happiness to your home, good health to your family and success in all your endeavors. 🙏💙

༉ ད་རེས་ སྤྱི་ལོ་ ༢༠༢༦ རང་ཟླ་ ༨ པའི་ཚེས་ ༡༠ ལུ་ སྤུངས་ཐང་བདེ་བ་ཆེན་པོའི་ཕོ་བྲང་ནང་ མི་དམངས་ལུ་ ཞབས་དྲུང་དག་སྣང་མའི་ཚ...
21/09/2026

༉ ད་རེས་ སྤྱི་ལོ་ ༢༠༢༦ རང་ཟླ་ ༨ པའི་ཚེས་ ༡༠ ལུ་ སྤུངས་ཐང་བདེ་བ་ཆེན་པོའི་ཕོ་བྲང་ནང་ མི་དམངས་ལུ་ ཞབས་དྲུང་དག་སྣང་མའི་ཚེ་དབང་དང་ ནང་རྟེན་མཇལ་ཁ་གནང་ཡོད་པའི་མཐོང་སྣང་ནུ།

21/09/2026
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11-09-2026 I Punakha: A day-long programme on Glacial Lake Outburst Flood (GLOF) preparedness and evacuation drill was c...
11/09/2026

11-09-2026 I Punakha: A day-long programme on Glacial Lake Outburst Flood (GLOF) preparedness and evacuation drill was conducted in Punakha today to strengthen disaster preparedness, coordination and emergency response capacity among relevant stakeholders.

The programme included a presentation by the relevant officials on emergency preparedness measures and the evacuation plan. In the afternoon, an evacuation drill was conducted within the premises of Punakha Dzong to assess the effectiveness of the evacuation procedures and coordination mechanisms during a potential GLOF event.

The meeting was chaired by the Hon’ble Minister for Ministry of Home Affairs and attended by officials from the Dzongkhag Administration, Department of Local Governance and Disaster Management, Bhutan Red Cross Society, Royal Bhutan Police, Zhung Dratshang (Lams and Lopens), National Centre for Hydrology and Meteorology, and representatives from other relevant sectors.

The exercise provided an important platform to enhance preparedness, strengthen inter-agency coordination and promote awareness on timely evacuation, and effective response to GLOF and other disaster risks.

📢𝐒𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐥𝐭Punakha Dzongkhag Administration is pleased to announce the selection results for the posts of Cook/Bak...
11/09/2026

📢𝐒𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐥𝐭
Punakha Dzongkhag Administration is pleased to announce the selection results for the posts of Cook/Baker and Driver III.

Public Notice
10/09/2026

Public Notice

On the joyous occasion of the 3rd Birth Anniversary of Her Royal Highness Gyalsem Sonam Yangden Wangchuck, the Dzongkhag...
09/09/2026

On the joyous occasion of the 3rd Birth Anniversary of Her Royal Highness Gyalsem Sonam Yangden Wangchuck, the Dzongkhag Administration, Zhung Dratshang, Regional Offices and Royal Bhutan Police of Punakha offered golden butter lamps, prayers and a cake-cutting ceremony at Punakha Dzong, praying for Her Royal Highness’s long life, good health, and eternal happiness.

We join the nation in offering our heartfelt prayers and warmest wishes to our beloved Princess on Her 3rd Birth Anniversary.

May Her Royal Highness be blessed with a long, healthy, happy and prosperous life.🙏🙏🙏

04/09/2026

PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT

Subject: Mock Drill on GLOF Emergency Evacuation Preparedness on Friday, 11 September 2026

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Punakha Dzong
Punakha

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Monday 09:00 - 17:00
Tuesday 09:00 - 17:00
Wednesday 09:00 - 17:00
Thursday 09:00 - 17:00
Friday 09:00 - 17:00

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+9752584530

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